Intel Core i7-3770K vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Core i7-3770K vs Xeon E5-1620 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1620 performs better than the Core i7-3770K. Despite this, the Core i7-3770K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3770K. Despite this, the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3770K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.